Celebrating Lee Kuan Yew and the Singapore Story
The world certainly mourns when a great man dies. Today, we celebrate the life of one such great leader who did right by and for their people. Lee Kuan Yew, the man credited with building…
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Ghana-Cote d’Ivoire Maritime Border Dispute: Time to Act Strategically? (Part 2)
In an interesting twist of events, the Ivorian government formally requested the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) for a suspension of oil exploration and production activities in the disputed maritime boundary…
Socio-Economic and Governance Conditions in Ghana – The State of the Nation By IEA-Ghana
Extract from the latest and damning IEA Report on the most important problems confronting the country. I dare say this is the ‘real’ state of the nation. Generally, the report corroborates other findings in the…
Turning Organic Waste into Gold Dust
This is one of the policy initiatives I will vigorously pursue to diversify Ghana’s energy mix, were I to have the chance. All public schools (especially the secondary schools), municipal and district assemblies and communities…
Middle Class Activism, Regional Devolution and Cocoa Politics in the Gold Coast (Circa 1955)
Extracts from The Times newspaper of 1955 (1) “Throughout the country the middle classes, men in the upper ranks of the law; the professions and education are instinctively against the C.P.P. These middle classes interrelated…
Ghana’s Economy: The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same
Post the Senchi consensus and ongoing IMF bailout talks, one would have thought that the Government will make firm commitments to reduce these two line items which continue to constrain the fiscal space: PAYROLL COSTS…
GHANA’S TIER TWO-PENSION SCHEME AND MATTERS ARISING
For those who want to understand the impasse between labour unions and government on the tier two pensions scheme, I entreat you to read the National Pensions Act, 2008 (Act 766) and ancillary regulations. SSNIT…